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  • Jumping in WordPress Ouch

    If you are visiting this website for the first time or after a long absence, mea culpa. It will get better, I promise. Months ago I decided to drop my previous hosting system and transition to WordPress. I spent some… Continue reading

    Jumping in WordPress Ouch
  • New Everything Back to the Past?

    Every business has a unique potential waiting to be tapped. Recognizing the keys to unlock this growth can set an enterprise on the path to unprecedented success. Continue reading

    New Everything Back to the Past?
  • Andrea Price wins 2021 SCASM Student Poster prize!

    The Southern California chapter of the American Society of Microbiology (SCASM) holds every year in their Fall conference a Student Collegiate Poster competition. We are ecstatic that our own undergraduate researcher Andrea Price (IG @andreaevolves, Twitter @andreaevolves) won this prestigious… Continue reading

  • More COVID-19 Impacts

    We’ve mentioned the impacts of COVID-19 on our field trips, but the overall purpose of this project–determining the impact of plastic pollution on coastal microbes–is more urgent than ever. As reported by Scientific American, increased use of personal protective equipment… Continue reading

  • Did you try to contact us? Please do it again…

    Technology is our friend until it is not…We received notifications of contact forms submitted, but turns out we had to upgrade the form program in order to see the entries. And when it was upgraded, it erased the existing entries.… Continue reading

  • Updates in Covid Times

    This is a quick update of where we are at now with the Covid pandemic. Needless to say, pretty much everything is on standby now. Conferences we planned for presenting data were canceled (was really looking forward EB2020 being in… Continue reading

  • 2020: New Year New Phase New Goals

    As we enter the second year of our NSF grant, new opportunities and challenges are coming our way. With the logistics of regular SIO field trips and student assessments established, the focus is now on both deepening the science and… Continue reading

  • More conferences and workshops

    It’s hard to believe January is well over half gone! Ana and I have been quite busy going to workshops and conferences to share our news and experiences. I attended a grantsmanship workshop January 9-10 hosted by the NSF STEM… Continue reading

  • Education Research Results and Presentations

    Ana and I are “dividing and conquering” in terms of sharing results. I am at the American Society for Microbiology’s annual meeting presenting our preliminary results on student outcomes while Ana is at a Gordon Research Conference doing the same.… Continue reading

  • And we are rolling!

    As Rachel announced in a previous note, we are collaborating with Jeff Bowman from SIO in the deployment, collection, and analysis of samples, as well as in the educational experience. The gist of the NSF grant is to develop a… Continue reading